FL Debates #1: Gun Control

[goigle!]

1. If you can get your hands on a gun, the chances are so can your attacker.
   
2. Even if you have a gun, do you know how to use it? How to load, aim, fire, toggle the safety, stop it from jamming? I doubt many people will go to a shooting range.
   
3. If you did have a gun and you did get attacked, chances are you won't even be able to get it out or the attacked might just take it from you if you did
   

-support for me
1. Yes, but even if you can't your attacker still could. Drug Cartels in Mexico stole weapons from the government (both the Mexican and American) and use those to intimidate the local population who are subject to strict gun laws.
2. That's just silly. If you buy a car, you learn to drive it (usually before your buy one). A gun is no different.
3. This is simply not true, it all depends on the situation.

I don't mind gun control in Europe if it is working there. It would not work in America. There's already too many guns and we also have cartels just south of the border so there's a slim chance people in the border states (excluding California) would be willing to give up any guns they already have.

Switzerland has a culture where less gun control is working. (Gun crime stats for Switzerland)

Florida (where I live) used to have a murder rate that was 36% above the national average. After they passed a law authorizing people who earned a permit (passing a gun course basically) the murder rate dropped to 4% below the national average.